Resilient wheel.



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RESILIENT WHEEL. APPLICATION FILED SEPT-26,1913.

Patented July 6, 1915.

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JEAN REUSE AND CHARLES REUSE, OF HAL, BELGIUM.

RESILIENT WHEEL.

Application filed September 26, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, JEAN REUsE and CHARLES REUsE, subjects of theKingdom of Belgium, residing at Quai au Charbon, Hal, in the Kingdom ofBelgium, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ResilientlVheels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to resilient wheels of the kind described in ourU. S. Patent N 0. 921,283 wherein the resiliency is obtained by means ofblocks of soft india rubber of cylindrical shape, interposed between therim and the hub. According to the construction described in the U. S.Patent No. 921,283, metal pins or the like are provided at regularintervals between these blocks and the inner walls of the casingswherein these blocks are located, for the purpose of distributing thepressure along the whole length of the said blocks. To permit of theintroduction of these pins and to retain them in place at the desireddistance from one another transverse grooves were formed upon theperiphery of the blocks for their reception. These grooves had, however,the drawback that the contact of these pins with the metal wall of thecasings gave rise to unpleasant jingling noises during the rotation ofthe wheels and to friction which by producing wear both of the metal andof the india rubber increased the jingling.

The present improvement has for its object to avoid this drawback andconsists in inserting the metal pins or the like, wholly into the indiarubber of the blocks near to the periphery of the latter so that neitherthe shank nor the ends of the pins or the like, will come into contactwith the metal of the casings. Transverse notches or grooves may beformed between the pins in the periphery of the blocks so as to renderthe latter more compressible.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a front view of a wheelconstructed ac- Copies of this patent may be obtained for five centseach, by addressing the Commissioner Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 6, 1915.

Serial No. 791,988.

cording to U. S. Patent No. 921,283 showing the blocks constructed inaccordance with the present invention. Figs. 2 and 3 are transversesections drawn on a larger scale through the line AA, Fig. 1 showing ablock in its normal and compressed states respectively. Fig. 4 is an endview and Fig. 5 a section through the line 13-13, Fig. 4 of one of therubber blocks detached.

In these figures, at are the rubber blocks and b the metal pins embeddedtherein near to the periphery, c, c (Fig. 4) are notches or groovesformed in the blocks between the pins; (Z is a central opening throughthe blocks.

6 are the boxes or casings integral with the rim 7 and g are the framesor rings integral with the spokes h and hub 2'.

7c is the wheel tire.

As clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3, pressure exerted on the middleportion of the rubber blocks a by the frames or rings g is evenlydistributed throughout the whole length of said blocks by the embeddedmetal pins Z) thus preventing the blocks from being sheared between theframes 9 and the casings e, e.

What we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates is The combination with a resilient wheel comprising a rim andspokes and a plurality of india rubber blocks keying said rim and spokestogether, of a plurality of metal pins each of a length less than thewidth of the rubber blocks, the said pins being totally embedded atregular intervals around the blocks adjacent the periphery thereof.

In testimony whereof we afi'iX our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

JEAN REUSE. CHARLES REUSE. Witnesses:

LEON PIr'iRARD, CHAS. REY N USMITI-I.

of Patents Washington, D. C.

